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Electronic Trading in 2015: Faster or Smarter?
Annalisa Sarasini talks about how industry standards, open source, HTML5 and hosted services are today leveraged by leading buy and sell side firms when implementing single and cross asset solutions.
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Priming Java for Speed at Market Open
Gil Tene provides an overview of JIT compiler optimization techniques and their impact on common market-open slowdown scenarios.
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Spotify Audio Delivery at Scale
Niklas Gustavsson presents Spotify's 2-layer services, and how the UNIX philosophy of composing components that does a single thing well works on a greater scale.
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Building a Modern Microservices Architecture at Gilt: The Essentials
Yoni Goldberg discusses the many advantages that microservices can offer or has offered to the Gilt engineering team, as well as the challenges and how Gilt’s engineers solved these challenges.
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Five Techniques to Improve How You Debug Servers
Tal Weiss explores five crucial Java techniques for distributed debugging and some of the pitfalls that make bug resolution much harder, and can even lead to downtime.
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Lessons from Etsy: The Secrets to a Successful Remote Culture
Brad Greenlee talks about how Etsy have fostered their remote culture,the effort it took, and the work they still have to do. He shares their successes and failures and what they have learned.
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New in ECMAScript 2016, JavaScript's First Yearly Release
Brian Terlson presents the changes TC39 is making to its specification publishing process for ES2016 and beyond.
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Product Ownership Is a Team Sport
Shane Hastie discusses the need for business analysis and requirements management, and showing how product ownership requires a team with a variety of skills and backgrounds to be effective.
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Service Architectures at Scale: Lessons from Google and eBay
Randy Shoup discusses modern service architectures at scale, using specific examples from both Google and eBay. He covers some interesting lessons learned in building and operating these sites.
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Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform
Matt Ranney explains the Uber architecture overall, with a focus on the dispatch systems, the geospatial index, handling failure, and dealing with the distributed traveling salesman problem.
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Size Matters! Product Management from LittleCo to BigDeal
Lisa Long talks about working with teams ranging from two people in an art gallery to three thousand spread across twelve time zones.
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Financial Modeling with Apache Spark: Calculating Value at Risk
Sandy Ryza aims to give a feel for what it is like to approach financial modeling with modern big data tools, using the Monte Carlo method for a a basic VaR calculation with Spark.